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In this luminous novel about a modern Don Juan, John Berger relates the story of G., a young man forging an energetic sexual career in Europe during the early years of the last century as Europe teeters on the brink of war. With profound compassion, Berger explores the hearts and minds of both men and women, and what happens during sex, to reveal the conditions of the libertine´s success: his essential loneliness, the quiet cumulation in each of his sexual experiences of all of those that precede it, the tenderness that infuses even the briefest of his encounters, and the way women experience their own extraordinariness through their liaisons with him. Set against the turbulent backdrop of Garibaldi´s attempt to unite Italy, the failed revolution of Milanese workers in 1898, the Boer War and the dramatic first flight across the Alps, G. is a brilliant novel about the search for intimacy in the turmoil of history

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John Berger, geb. 1926 in London, gest. am 2. Januar 2017.Er absolvierte ein Kunststudium und war dann Zeichenlehrer und Maler mit mehreren erfolgreichen Ausstellungen. In den fünfziger Jahren beteiligte er sich an der internationalen Kampagne "Artists for Peace". Seine Kunstkritiken erschienen in zahlreichen Zeitschriften. Außerdem arbeitete er für das Fernsehen und schrieb Drehbücher. 1989 erhielt Berger den Österreichischen Staatspreis für Publizistik. Für sein Werk erhielt John Berger 1991 den Petrarca-Preis.

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